On this evening of poetry, Ghanaian born, Jamaican-raised poet Kwame Dawes is joined by Jamaican-born and raised rising poet Safiya Sinclair. The two poets will, through their work, celebrate reggae music and pay tribute to one of its most acclaimed singer/songwriters, Robert Nestor Marley, the day before what would have been his 73rd birthday.

Created and hosted by poet and former Greenlight bookseller Angel Nafis, Greenlight’s Poetry Salon welcomes locally and nationally celebrated poets for an intense and joyful evening of wine, poetry, and performance. For February, the Salon is honored to host Hanif Abdurraqib, author of the essay collection They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us and the poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (nominated for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award); Safiya Sinclair, author of the poetry collection Cannibal and winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award, among other honors; Natalie Eilbert, the author of Indictus, winner of Noemi Press's 2016 Poetry Prize, as well as the poetry collection, Swan Feast.

Award-winning poets Safiya Sinclair and Shara McCallum kick off the 2017 Harrisburg Book Festival for an evening of spoken word to remember. With an introductory and closing musical performance from Harrisburg's own, Shawan Rice, Sinclair, and McCallum will perform selected poetry readings from their most recent collections — Cannibal and Madwoman. This event is proudly presented by Festival Sponsor Messiah College's School of Humanities.

Safiya Sinclair and Shara McCallum will be available to sign copies of their books immediately following the reading.

Safiya Sinclair was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of a Whiting Award, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and an ALA “Notable Book of the Year.” Sinclair is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California

This event will feature poetry readings by two acclaimed contemporary poets, Safiya Sinclair and Bettina Judd, who will read from their debut collections. This reading will be followed by a conversation on the topics of Black feminist poetics, scientific racism, and the archive (themes which both authors treat at length).

PEN America is partnering with the Brooklyn Museum to present an evening of cocktails and conversation centering Caribbean women writers.

This evening, the first in our two-part series presents Elizabeth Nunez, Trinidadian-American novelist and distinguished professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY; Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair; and Caribbean writer, poet, and essayist Tiphanie Yanique, in conversation.

Sinclair is the author of Cannibal, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and named one of the American Library Association's Notable Books of the Year. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Granta, The Nation, Oxford American, and elsewhere. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literarture and creative writing at the University of Southern California.

Rising poet Safiya Sinclair will read from her award-winning poetry collection Cannibal (Nebraska Press, 2016), and discuss her inspiration. Safiya was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She received her MFA in Poetry at the University of Virginia, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

A roundtable discussion with the visiting poets, Safiya Sinclair, Layli Long Soldier, and Tonya Foster, and the Yale Race & Innovative Poetics Working Group. Chaired by Camille Owens and Maryam Parhizkar at Beinecke Library.

Safiya Sinclair, author of "Cannibal," and Ishion Hutchinson, author of "House of Lords and Commons" and "Far District," will read from their work in the Writers On Writing Reading Series, sponsored by the Department of Literary Arts.

For our AWP Spectacular, Literary Death Match heads to Black Cat in the nation's capital, as we team with with Painted Bride Quarterly for a magical night of literature, witticisms and enough absurdity to momentarily distract from the horrors happening over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Trust us when we say: this one's not to be missed.

On January 15, 2017, the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., writers across the United States and in Europe will come together for Writers Resist, a “re- inauguration” of our shared commitment to the spirit of compassion, equality, free speech, and the fundamental ideals of democracy. Writers Resist events, large and small, will be held in dozens of locations throughout the world.